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Jan. 1st, 2010 12:16 amThe snowball my neighbor just threw at my window is now a heart shape. Awwww. I declare this a good omen for 2010. Have a great one, everyone!
I can have bears without yuletide
Dec. 21st, 2009 05:25 pmBecause I still have no Christmas presents. *flail*
( the sorry tale behind the cut )
So that means I'll have to get presents tomorrow after work - somehow I have to get both into the city and to IKEA, all by train because I don't have snow tires. I'm exhausted just thinking about this.
on the bright side: Look at the awesome icon made by![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
skuf! *g*
( the sorry tale behind the cut )
So that means I'll have to get presents tomorrow after work - somehow I have to get both into the city and to IKEA, all by train because I don't have snow tires. I'm exhausted just thinking about this.
on the bright side: Look at the awesome icon made by
skuf! *g*Oh, Chrome möchte, dass ich diesen Eintrag auf Deutsch schreibe! Sorry, Chrome!
I've been home sick since Tuesday (fever, sore throat, the works), and today's the first time I feel better. Earlier today I wrote a long post about all the suckiness of the last three days and decided to make it private. I hope you're thankful! *g*
The high point was yesterday, anyway, when I went to the doctor, got a recipe for antibiotics ("There's a lot of strep around these days"), went home and developed an eye infection half an hour later. Seriously. What the hell?
I asked the pharmacist when I had to go out again to pick up my meds, and she told me to get back to the doctor, so I called them and went back in the afternoon. I saw the other doctor (the first one only does half-days) who was a little puzzled - "Weren't you already here today?" *sigh*
Did I mention that it was raining cats and dogs on every one of those trips? Or that there's construction in my back yard this week? I could go on, but I won't. *g*
I actually got up this morning! I had coffee for the first time! I may even eat! My eye is less swollen! The fever is almost gone! Life is good again.
So. How are you?
I've been home sick since Tuesday (fever, sore throat, the works), and today's the first time I feel better. Earlier today I wrote a long post about all the suckiness of the last three days and decided to make it private. I hope you're thankful! *g*
The high point was yesterday, anyway, when I went to the doctor, got a recipe for antibiotics ("There's a lot of strep around these days"), went home and developed an eye infection half an hour later. Seriously. What the hell?
I asked the pharmacist when I had to go out again to pick up my meds, and she told me to get back to the doctor, so I called them and went back in the afternoon. I saw the other doctor (the first one only does half-days) who was a little puzzled - "Weren't you already here today?" *sigh*
Did I mention that it was raining cats and dogs on every one of those trips? Or that there's construction in my back yard this week? I could go on, but I won't. *g*
I actually got up this morning! I had coffee for the first time! I may even eat! My eye is less swollen! The fever is almost gone! Life is good again.
So. How are you?
post by email
Nov. 9th, 2009 11:56 ampost-tags:
post-mood: working
post-music:
post-security: private
just a test to see if I know how to do this.
If you can see this, at least the security setting didn't work. *g*
post-mood: working
post-music:
post-security: private
just a test to see if I know how to do this.
If you can see this, at least the security setting didn't work. *g*
My November Resolution
Nov. 1st, 2009 08:32 pmSince I mentioned it yesterday: My November Resolution is: I'll eat food that I cooked. No take-out, no frozen dinners, and especially not raiding the fridge and wolfing done things that weren't meant to be wolfed down. Instead I'll cook, I'll take the stuff I cooked to the office (as well as snacks), and I'll eat at (mostly) fixed times every day.
We'll see how that goes. Today was very good, but since it's Sunday, it wasn't too difficult. Sunday is a cooking day anyway. But I'm good through tomorrow at least and have ideas for the rest of the week.
We'll see how that goes. Today was very good, but since it's Sunday, it wasn't too difficult. Sunday is a cooking day anyway. But I'm good through tomorrow at least and have ideas for the rest of the week.
translation: how not to do it
Oct. 31st, 2009 05:41 pm(Does anyone know how to add alt-text on Picasa? I'm technologically ignorant and can't find it.)
Yesterday I was reading the latest![[livejournal.com profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
news post, giggling along (refusing to cut pictures that don't even work in their own layout! Saying that they just don't feel like cutting, even though people complained a lot over the last uncut post! quoting people without attribution! changing the userinfo after someone pointed out that the post didn't agree with it!) ... good times.
So I thought: It's been a long time since I deleted my LJ. I wonder what changed? And I decided to try it out.
( This is how it's like. Gruesome. )
Yesterday I was reading the latest
news post, giggling along (refusing to cut pictures that don't even work in their own layout! Saying that they just don't feel like cutting, even though people complained a lot over the last uncut post! quoting people without attribution! changing the userinfo after someone pointed out that the post didn't agree with it!) ... good times.So I thought: It's been a long time since I deleted my LJ. I wonder what changed? And I decided to try it out.
( This is how it's like. Gruesome. )
learnings!
Oct. 31st, 2009 09:25 amFirst one thing that's interesting to people other than me: elz made ![[community profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
intro_to_cs, where we'll follow the MIT "Intro to Computer Science" course. All material is free and online, including video lectures, and I'll start in November. There's also people who'll start in January, and people doing one lecture a week or two. The course doesn't require programming experience and uses Python. If you're interested, come play!
I always wanted to do something like that, but learning on my own without any outside structure with timetables doesn't really work for me, so I'm very happy thatelz is doing this. See you over there!
In other, more boring news: It's the weekend! I have time! Now I just have to use that time.... So here's a reminder to myself.
( things I want to do around here )
elz made intro_to_cs, where we'll follow the MIT "Intro to Computer Science" course. All material is free and online, including video lectures, and I'll start in November. There's also people who'll start in January, and people doing one lecture a week or two. The course doesn't require programming experience and uses Python. If you're interested, come play!I always wanted to do something like that, but learning on my own without any outside structure with timetables doesn't really work for me, so I'm very happy that
elz is doing this. See you over there!In other, more boring news: It's the weekend! I have time! Now I just have to use that time.... So here's a reminder to myself.
( things I want to do around here )
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Oct. 10th, 2009 11:21 amI apologize for not posting here pretty much ever - everything I've wanted to post lately were snippy one-liners, and no one wants to read that. Me neither.
Still, I wanted to say that I'm still sniffly, but no longer sick - had to take one sick-day this week, came back to discover that everyone else was sick, too, so lots and lots of work. At least one co-worker won't be back on monday, either - from what I've heard she might be developing some chronic nastiness health-wise.
Whatever! It's the weekend, the weather's nasty so I don't feel obliged to leave the house at all, I have nice things to cook. Life could be a lot worse. *g*
( to-do list )
Still, I wanted to say that I'm still sniffly, but no longer sick - had to take one sick-day this week, came back to discover that everyone else was sick, too, so lots and lots of work. At least one co-worker won't be back on monday, either - from what I've heard she might be developing some chronic nastiness health-wise.
Whatever! It's the weekend, the weather's nasty so I don't feel obliged to leave the house at all, I have nice things to cook. Life could be a lot worse. *g*
( to-do list )
The Beautiful North
Sep. 26th, 2009 01:10 pm380km on the bike, one ferry, and I've arrived on Amrum - the World's Best Island, as my aunt insists. I don't know about that, but it's definitely nice.
The journey was interesting - I drove between 50 and 90km a day with a rest day in between (which wasn't actually that restful since I did a sightseeing marathon in Schleswig, a rather hilly town). Since I didn't follow the coast most of the time, the drive wasn't that spectacular and photogenic, but I enjoyed myself immensely and sometimes came as close to a zen place as I'll ever be. *g*
Tomorrow I'll take the train back, clean the bike and make further plans - I have next week off, too!
The camera died somewhere along the way, but I'll see if I can rescue some pictures when I'm home.
The journey was interesting - I drove between 50 and 90km a day with a rest day in between (which wasn't actually that restful since I did a sightseeing marathon in Schleswig, a rather hilly town). Since I didn't follow the coast most of the time, the drive wasn't that spectacular and photogenic, but I enjoyed myself immensely and sometimes came as close to a zen place as I'll ever be. *g*
Tomorrow I'll take the train back, clean the bike and make further plans - I have next week off, too!
The camera died somewhere along the way, but I'll see if I can rescue some pictures when I'm home.
on the road
Sep. 18th, 2009 10:56 pmI'm in Hamburg - saw Neil Gaiman, who is funny and sweet and probably should get more sleep (or maybe he just looks like that). Then I met up with my cousin and his girlfriend (who saw Angela Merkel instead *g*), got something to eat and then we went home because all of us started to yawn.
Currently I'm on their sofa (of course I'm awake *now*). Tomorrow is the cousin's birthday, my sister and her family will come (and my aunt, that's still a secret though! *g*) and then I'll start my bike tour of awesomeness.
VACATION!
Currently I'm on their sofa (of course I'm awake *now*). Tomorrow is the cousin's birthday, my sister and her family will come (and my aunt, that's still a secret though! *g*) and then I'll start my bike tour of awesomeness.
VACATION!
harriet_spy posted the quote, and Neil Gaiman recced the article: the NYT interviewed Ray Bradbury, who is raising money for libraries. It's a nice read, actually, and I think he's completely right about how important libraries are. But he's also 89 years old.The best part:
The Internet? Don’t get him started. “The Internet is a big distraction,” Mr. Bradbury barked from his perch in his house in Los Angeles, which is jammed with enormous stuffed animals, videos, DVDs, wooden toys, photographs and books, with things like the National Medal of Arts sort of tossed on a table.
“Yahoo called me eight weeks ago,” he said, voice rising. “They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? ‘To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.’
“It’s distracting,” he continued. “It’s meaningless; it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere.”
If that doesn't cheer you up: Yesterday I ran a 5k race dressed as a garden gnome. There might be pictures when their website updates. *g*
invite codes - I has them.
Jun. 18th, 2009 07:00 pmI have nine, even! First come, first served, if you still need one, if you want to make another journal / a new comm / a mirror for an existing journal on LJ or IJ - whatever! Come play! Just grab one and paste it into the appropriate spot at the Dreamwidth home page.
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Hugos: Novelettes
Jun. 8th, 2009 08:36 pmWhat are novelettes anyway? (I can see the need for a word that means "longer than a short story but shorter than a novella", but somehow I'd expected the English language to come up with something... better. I'm thankful for "Erzählung".)
Anyway, nominees and my votes! The links take you directly to the stories (the overview is here); you can read them for free and I encourage you to do this. Cool fiction for free - almost like in fandom! *g* (In fact, some of the Nominees are fanfic.)
My number one: The Gambler by Paolo Bacigalupi. READ THIS. I MEAN IT. The POV character is an online journalist in the US with Lao roots, and the story is about that, but also about doing the right thing and telling the important stories and how you hold on to what's important. I loved this and I really, really want this story to win a Hugo.
Second place: Alastair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders by Mike Resnick. This is a story about two ninety-year-old guys who have been friends all their life. ( slight spoilers ) The reviews I've seen are mostly negative, but I liked this.
Third: Pride and Prometheus (pdf-link) by John Kessel. This is exactly what you might suspect - and by "you" I'm talking about a fandom person. ( vague spoilers for the premise of the story )
So I recommend those stories (the last one with caveats, see the cut above). The last two nominees I don't want to win.
Shoggoths in Bloom by Elizabeth Bear. This one's fanfic, too! Lovecraft fanfic, to be exact. The reason I'm not rating this one is the obvious one - I only heard of Bear during RaceFail, and I don't want her to win a Hugo. I read the story with that in mind, to be honest, but the story itself didn't convince me either. ( plot spoiler )
The last nominee: The Ray Gun - a Love Story by James Alan Gardner. This one simply bored me, and I didn't finish it, so I don't have anything useful to say.
Anyway, nominees and my votes! The links take you directly to the stories (the overview is here); you can read them for free and I encourage you to do this. Cool fiction for free - almost like in fandom! *g* (In fact, some of the Nominees are fanfic.)
My number one: The Gambler by Paolo Bacigalupi. READ THIS. I MEAN IT. The POV character is an online journalist in the US with Lao roots, and the story is about that, but also about doing the right thing and telling the important stories and how you hold on to what's important. I loved this and I really, really want this story to win a Hugo.
Second place: Alastair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders by Mike Resnick. This is a story about two ninety-year-old guys who have been friends all their life. ( slight spoilers ) The reviews I've seen are mostly negative, but I liked this.
Third: Pride and Prometheus (pdf-link) by John Kessel. This is exactly what you might suspect - and by "you" I'm talking about a fandom person. ( vague spoilers for the premise of the story )
So I recommend those stories (the last one with caveats, see the cut above). The last two nominees I don't want to win.
Shoggoths in Bloom by Elizabeth Bear. This one's fanfic, too! Lovecraft fanfic, to be exact. The reason I'm not rating this one is the obvious one - I only heard of Bear during RaceFail, and I don't want her to win a Hugo. I read the story with that in mind, to be honest, but the story itself didn't convince me either. ( plot spoiler )
The last nominee: The Ray Gun - a Love Story by James Alan Gardner. This one simply bored me, and I didn't finish it, so I don't have anything useful to say.
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Jun. 8th, 2009 08:29 pmMy favorite method of procrastination: Linkhopping at the AO3. (Is this the cool acronym? I don't remember.) There's a "try a new author" link on the frontpage! And you can go through fandoms and tags and things!)
This time I arrived in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog fic, and I want to rec this one: What A Man's Gotta Do by minkhollow. A lgbtfest story about Captain Hammer. And by the end, I really, really liked the Captain. *boggles* If you haven't, read it! (And keep surfing the Archive. I've found a lot of cool stuff there.)
This time I arrived in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog fic, and I want to rec this one: What A Man's Gotta Do by minkhollow. A lgbtfest story about Captain Hammer. And by the end, I really, really liked the Captain. *boggles* If you haven't, read it! (And keep surfing the Archive. I've found a lot of cool stuff there.)
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Jun. 7th, 2009 08:42 pmI had a post, but I bored myself during spellcheck, so I scrapped it. Lucky you!
I'm pretty busy and also in the process of reassessing my life. This is both slightly depressing and exhausting, so I'm rather quiet at the moment. Sorry about that!
One thing I know: It's good to be an aunt. *g*
( proof! )
I'm pretty busy and also in the process of reassessing my life. This is both slightly depressing and exhausting, so I'm rather quiet at the moment. Sorry about that!
One thing I know: It's good to be an aunt. *g*
( proof! )
